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comment by zonk
zonk  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is a favorite word of yours?

I really like the German word "Schadenfreude", because it's interesting in many aspects. For one, it shows that we Germans really have a lot of words for almost everything and secondly, I think it reflects some part of the German culture for that word to even exist. And my American SO always reminds me how that is the "most German" word she knows :D





T-Dog  ·  3974 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm embarrassed to say that this is how i genuinely thought this word was pronounced until right now.

zonk  ·  3973 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh my God, I don't even :D

Of course I don't expect any foreigner to be good at German, but to me this just sounds sooooo wrong, haha

thenewgreen  ·  3974 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's funny how when something enters your conscious it begins to appear. I was just reading this Souciant piece and there it was... schadenfreude.

thenewgreen  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What a word. We all experience it, whether or not we choose to admit it. It gave rise to the success of reality television.